Firstly, I'm really sorry for publish just now! School really gave me a hard time... I haven't really got any sleep lately because of that too... Please forgive me! Anyway, please enjoy the reading!

Disclaimer : Nope, I do not own any of these characters, nor the places. Oh right, I own William and Zoe.

WARNING : swearings, madness and else


CHAPTER TWO

If Twilight Town has Zen, then Hollow Bastion has Aku.

Aku, just like what you've expected, is japanese for the evil, the opposite of Zen. And just like Zen, Aku is just its nickname. The real name of the gang is Heartless. The gang is always acted without any mercy, heartless, just like its name. That's all I knew.

Aku is Zen's greatest enemy so far, because of their unpredictable movements and powerful underlings. But according to Luxord's data, Zen has put Aku to an end ten years ago. They had captured the leader, a wicked woman named Maleficent, and put her into a jail. But before Zen could interrogate her, she managed to kill herself using the poison she kept inside her long coat. Because of this and the fact that Aku is such a professional criminal, we lack of the data about this gang. But Xemnas decided to close the case along with the death of the evil gang's leader. And with that, the existance of Aku is gone.

Then why the heck does that person has their symbol on his coat when we met on that fateful day?


I was still gaping like some kind of fish when the teacher finally stopped the albino kid's babbling and told him to sit beside me. What snapped me back to the reality is a tap on my shoulder.

"Um, excuse me?" oh, it's the new albino kid. What's his name? Ah, right, William. "Are you okay there? You were gaping like a fish with a pale face just a moment ago."

Realizing the attention, which was not only came from the new boy, but from the entire class, I blushed and spluttered, "N-no, it's nothing!"

I sighed in relief as the other finally removed their attention from me. But then I glanced at William again. I'll surely interroga—I mean, ask him once the lunch begin.


Dang. The new albino kid somehow managed to escape from my grasp. He's there in one second, then he's gone on the other second! That guy must have cheetah legs or something. He do tell me something before he go though.

"Must see the others, catch you later, Roxas!"

Who're 'the others'? Shit, I really had to catch him later.

"Hey," something was dropped on my desk. "Here's yours."

Seeing that the 'thing' is my precious, lovely laptop, I shrieked and rushed to check her out. It's decided then. Riku is a sadist and he hates me. That will wonderfully cause my early death.

"Well, see ya," Riku's about to escape from my wrath, but after I let William escape, there's no way I let Riku out of this too.

"Now, wait a second, Mr. Perfect!" I barked at him. "What if you damaged Zephy? Take a full responsible for this!" ...what? Yes, I named my laptop and gave her a gender. So what? Call me strange and I'll kill you.

He was about to open his mouth to say something back at me, but then he saw the desk beside me, which was full of unorganized things belong to William. "...You got a transfer student?"

"Yes, what's it to you? You should care about Zephy more anyway!" I snapped at him, then turned Zephy on to check if she's still alright inside.

"There's one too in my class," he informed me absentmindedly.

"Xemnas said that there are three new students here," I told him. "Which reminds me, do you know the other one?"

"Nah," he shook his head, making his shiny silver hair flew everywhere. Did he give his hair some glitter? It's so fuckin' shiny and glittering... "I only know about the one who went to my class. Her name is Zoe Darcnite, another emo-boyish girl."

"Dark knight?" I perked up at the unusual name.

"No, d-a-r-c-n-i-t-e. Darcnite," he scoffed at me as if I'm the one who's stupid. That jerk...

I glared at him, but then I couldn't help but ask to satisfy my curiosity, "So what does she look like?"

"She tied her black long hair, wore red turtleneck underneath her opened uniform and had sharp purple eyes," Riku described her appearance in one list. "She's quiet and creepy in the same time. Her eyes always looked like they're glaring at you coldly, which maybe is true. She really looked like a boy that you won't manage to identify her as a girl in the first time you saw her. Oh, and in the introduction section, she threatened us to never 'get a problem' with her, and she had done it so perfectly that nobody moved in a full five minutes after hearing that."

"...Wow," I commented dryly. Surely, I wouldn't want to be in that kid's dark list. But there's still something strange... "Why are you willingly said them when I asked, Riku? You usually just ignore me and pretend to hear nothing if I ask something."

"...There's something wrong with her," he said shortly. "She had this strange and creepy aura around her..."

I furrowed my eyebrows at this. If anyone else said this, I would probably laugh it off, but it's Riku who said it. Riku is a person who can see right into you. He'll easily tell what person you are and what are you thinking just by a single glance. If Riku started to use the word 'aura', just like what he's just done now, then it must be mean he couldn't read that person at all. And if he can't read them, then there's something wrong about them. And by how Riku had described this new kid, I think it won't do any good for us.

"It's seems like we need to talk to the three of them later," I said after a long silence. I closed Zephy close as I said those. Thank goodness, there's nothing wrong with her...

The silver haired teen before me nodded. "Well then, see you later. The lunch break is almost over."

"Wait, what?" I shouted, but Riku had already fled to his own class. Following his disappearance, the bell rang loudly, signaling the lunch break is over. Damnit! I haven't eat a single thing!

William also back from wherever he's gone to. He must has filled his stomach... My own stomach know it, and it told me with a long growls of envy, eh, I mean, hunger.

"You..." I was about to burst at him, but managed to keep it inside and asked instead, "Hey, can I talk to you after school?"

He looked surprised to hear it. "Eh, sure."

"And can you ask your other friends to come too? I want to ask something about Hollow Bastion," what a lie... Well, it's better than nothing.

"Sure, I'll ask," he said, giving me a smile. He immediately opened his phone, probably to contact his friends—which I still won't believe if one of them is that Axel. After a few moments, he finally snapped his phone closed and turned to me again, "They said okay."

I grinned at him, which he returned with his own grin, before turned my attention to the teacher who was just entered the class. I wonder what will the other transfer students looked like...

End of Chapter Two


Yeah, so that's the chapter I finally able to finish... Once again, I'm really sorry that it took me that long to finish this thing. Oh, and by the way, about my mistakes... I really need to find a beta...

Oh well, anyway, review please!

-Rie G.